Advocacy groups have published a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislators alleging ongoing staff violence within ...

The Mississippi House passed several bills last week aimed at improving the quality of medical care in Mississippi prisons and developing stronger oversight of health care delivery. The bills, which ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: The White House is calling on Congress to include a railroad regulation bill as part of a larger transportation funding package this ...

In his final primetime address to the state, Gov. Tony Evers implored the Legislature to work into the year to reach ...

When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

“This is a campaign of retribution,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, wrote Wednesday on social media. “Trump is ...

Prosecutors say operators of a Bronx day care hid kilos of fentanyl under a trap door above which children played and slept.

The state has paid 44% more for prisoners’ health care over the last two decades, even as the prison population has fallen by half. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor) New Jersey taxpayers ...

Florida Senate Bill 106 aims to set clear standards for the treatment of incarcerated individuals. The bill proposes requirements for air conditioning, adequate meal times, and access to hygiene ...

A federal judge ordered a takeover of Arizona's prison health care due to unconstitutional conditions. The ruling follows a 2012 lawsuit and the state's failure to comply with an injunction for major ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Arizona state prison system's health care services to be put under the control of a court-appointed receiver after finding it was still subjecting incarcerated ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona's prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...